04—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12,1981
Eighth generation
(Continued from Page 03) I
"The cows were letting down so
much milk at such a rate that the
milkers couldn’t take it away fast
enough. As a result, the milk would
flood the claws.
At the same tune, the milking
unit was set up to pulsate all tour
quarters at once. This pressure
change in the teat forced milk back
up in the udder. The constant
irritation set up the environment
for the coliform to flourish.
Coliform can kill a cow it she’s not
resistant, notes Donald.
This severe infection warranted
immediate action on the part of
Bollingers. Dealing with the
equipment problem meant in
stalling a 2-mch pipeline to replace
the original Ite-inch line, and
switching from simultaneous
pulsation to alternating pulsators.
Dr. Anderson advised the
Bollingers that each cow was to be
injected with a vaccine made trom
her individual milk culture. These
injections were administered once
every 10 days until the infection
cleared up.
Since then, as a preventative
measure, each animal on the
Bollinger milking string is treated
with this cultured mastitis vaccine
twice a year to help build up her
resistance. The shots are given at
freshening and when the cow is
dried off. ft an individual animal
should develop a problem case ot
mastitis during her lactation, she
is treated more frequently.
“What’s nice about this type ot
mastitis control is that you don’t
have to hold the milk after treating
a cow there’s no antibiotics.
And, it costs less than $5 per cow
per year,” notes Donald. That’s
cheap insurance.
The Willow Maple milking herd
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But today, more farmers are
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manure. And no matter how hard
you try, you just can’t make a pile
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barn to a closed manure pit. There
the manure is mingled with milk
house water and, after agitation, is
pumped to a six-month-storage
lagoon. A fan keeps gases out of the
barn while the mixing and pum
ping takes place.
This earthen lagoon, which was
finished last September, is the
latest in a long line of conservation
practices installed on the Bollinger
farms. Their present 161 acres
of limestone and shale ground
also bears witness to good man
agement, with contour strips wrap
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and a sod waterway carrying
excess surface water safely ac
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No-till planting and chisel
plowing are conservation practices
also employed in growing the
necessary livestock teed needed to
keep the Willow Maple cows at
their peak. The corn acreage is
harvested mostly as silage,
although some is shelled and
stored in a metal bin.
Up until this year, the Bollingers
had stored their shelled corn in a
heap on the second floor of the
barn, it was treated with propionic
acid to prevent spoilage. But the
Bollingers discovered that this
acid was "killing the butterfat.”
"Nobody had enough experience
with this acid treatment to tell us
tor sure it this was what was
causing our butterfat to drop,”
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struck.
Therefore our cost per cubic foot
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But Badger puts more in their
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This earthen manure storage pond was
completed last September and holds a six
month buildup of milkhouse water, barnlot
explains Donald. “But when we Needless to say, the Bollingers
quit feeding the com, our butterfat dropped the acid and opted for the
jumped from an average of 3.37' in metal bin. -
September to 3.78 in October. ’ ’ Along with their dairy operation.
Since then the Bollingers have the Bollingers also raise
learned that a slump in butterfat broilers m two houses built in 1968
was tound when cattle in a study and 1969
were ted alfalfa hay treated with 2
pounds of propionic acid per ton.
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Indeed not, stresses Harold.
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